Victor Yang passed his Continuing Appointment Review with the Department of Surgery at the University of Toronto. Victor is a faculty member in the Division of Neurosurgery at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and an Associate Professor of Surgery at the University of Toronto. He is a Senior Scientist in Brain Sciences and Physical Sciences at Sunnybrook Research Institute. He is also an Associate Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering and an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Medical Physics at Ryerson University, where he holds a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Bioengineering and Biophotonics.
Victor earned a Masters degree in Electrical & Computer Engineering and completed the MD-PhD (Medical Biophysics) program at the University of Toronto. He was recognized by a Governor General’s Gold Medal award for highest academic standing at the University in Sciences and Engineering. He then entered the Toronto Neurosurgery residency program while continuing his engineering focus at Ryerson University, where he managed a very productive laboratory focusing on ultrasound imaging, endovascular Doppler optical coherence tomography and medical devices design. At Sunnybrook, Victor has established an excellent research program focused on high-resolution neurosurgical navigation, multimodality intraoperative imaging guidance, endovascular imaging and minimally invasive therapeutics for carotid disease, ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke.
